Certainly not in a religious way, as I would be frustrated if someone insulted Jesus Christ. I'm just amazed by her because I think she has a lot of talent.

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I've only ever seen this Lady Gaga person on Project Runway (yes, serious), but she annoyed PETA, so she can't be all bad... anyway...

OTOH, that's not that hard to do.

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The best way to make this contrived faux-avant-garde corporate bilge go away is to deprive it of the attention the record companies so desperately want for it.

What are you talking about? She's one of the few pop artists on the scene today who actually writes the majority of her own music.

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Youths from the neighborhood playing football in the front yard with our sons. Almost a daily occurrence. Grass, dirt, a ball, and some friends- what more do you need? Isn't this so much better than video games? Let the children play!

Selam

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Most people, if they like this band at all, preferred the first album (Struggle), but I always preferred the second (The Road Less Traveled). Really the only thing in the hardcore realm that I ever liked.

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The best way to make this contrived faux-avant-garde corporate bilge go away is to deprive it of the attention the record companies so desperately want for it.

What are you talking about? She's one of the few pop artists on the scene today who actually writes the majority of her own music.

Anyone can write music, but very few people can write good music.

Either way "faux-avant-garde corporate bilge" is total nonsense if she actually writes her own music.

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The Smashing Pumpkins were the soundtrack of my life through junior high and high school. So much teenage angst. An eighth grader with Smashing Pumpkins in his walkman and a copy of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche in his backpack. What was I thinking? What were my parents thinking?! LOL.

The Smashing Pumpkins were the soundtrack of my life through junior high and high school. So much teenage angst. An eighth grader with Smashing Pumpkins in his walkman and a copy of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche in his backpack. What was I thinking? What were my parents thinking?! LOL.

(Note: I do not typically listen to this music anymore. Just reminiscing.)

<3 the Pumpkins

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""Love is a dangerous thing. It will crush you if you trust it. But without it you can never be whole. Love crucifies, but love saves. We will either be saved together with love, or damned alone without it." Selam, +GMK+

""Love is a dangerous thing. It will crush you if you trust it. But without it you can never be whole. Love crucifies, but love saves. We will either be saved together with love, or damned alone without it." Selam, +GMK+

My remark about the corporate character of this music was not in reference to who wrote the songs. I'm sure the "artist" in question was born to a natural human mother, also, and not raised from a test tube in a record company's laboratory.

What is chiefly corporate about this music is not merely its endorsement and promotion by corporate entities but its production (including autotune, shameful for someone with any vocal talent), its aesthetic, its consumerism, its product placement, etc. Beneath the veneer of rebelliousness is a deep conformism, both in style and in content.

I won't dispute the question of talent. I think talent, in itself, is vastly overrated in our culture. Oftentimes the most loathsome garbage is defended on the grounds of "but they're so talented!" Talent is nothing without inspiration, without beauty, without the artistic sensitivity that cannot be achieved by acquiring a set of technical skills. If all we want is "talent," I can think of many bands of many genres who have undoubtedly great proficiency with their instruments, and who make complex and difficult music, which is nevertheless profoundly uninspired and dull.

""Love is a dangerous thing. It will crush you if you trust it. But without it you can never be whole. Love crucifies, but love saves. We will either be saved together with love, or damned alone without it." Selam, +GMK+